Media studies

This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication.

"e;Digitalization significantly changes the media.

At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "e;fake news"e;, the work of investigative journalism has never been more important.

This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict.

This book studies the role of tabloid newspapers in exposing corruption and embezzlement in Africa.

This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

This timely book focuses on influence and behavior analysis in the broader context of social network applications and social media.

This book focuses on the theme of the transgression of life and death boundaries through its representation in Japanese contemporary visual media, more specifically in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, the animated film Journey to Agartha, and the computer game Shadow of the Colossus.

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud?

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Ireland's response to the climate crisis.

This book provides a selection of international perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of media and communications research with emphasis placed on methodological approaches and new research domains.

This book provides an account of current work on letters to the editor from a range of different national, cultural, conceptual and methodological perspectives.

This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

This book provides a theoretical assessment of audience research issues.

This book assembles ten scholarly examinations of the politics of representation in the groundbreaking animated children's television series Steven Universe.

This book traces the principal roots of the concept of post-truth to uncover how it came by its present meaning.

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the "e;hottest shows of lockdown"e; by outlets like The Guardian and GQ.

This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking.

Centering on public discourse and its fundamental lapses, this book takes a unique look at key barriers to social and political advancement in the information age.

This book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary.

Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad.

This book questions whether the news we get is as useful for citizens as it could, or should, be.

This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh.

Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows.

This book, written in an accessible style with numerous illustrations and with drawings by the author, discusses what brands are and the role brands play in American society and consumer cultures, in general.

In this controversial essay, Carlos Elias addresses the worldwide phenomenon that is threatening the scientific and economic progress of Western countries.

Environmental rhetorics have expanded awareness of mass extinction, climate change, and pervasive pollution, yet failed to generate collective action that adequately addresses such pressing matters.

Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema.

This book examines women's political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women's voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent.

This book aims to reflect how journalism has changed in recent years through different perspectives concerning the impact of technology, the reconfiguration of the media ecosystem, the transformation of business models, production and profession, as well as the influence of digital storytelling, mobile devices and participation within the context of glocal information.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

What skills do journalists exhibit in sensationalising, exaggerating and otherwise 'tabloiding' the truth, while usually stopping short of stating unambiguous falsehoods?

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary representation of the author on screen.

This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication.

This book examines a series of phenomena that have accompanied the development of digital technology and focuses on the attentional processes that these phenomena have in common.

This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as 'electronic literature', comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in their enactment.

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump's mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig's blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines.

This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a technological humanism.

This book employs discursive psychology to examine how far-right discourse on issues related to multiculturalism is received, interpreted, adapted and contested in political rhetoric and informal talk.

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being.

This book examines the challenges often experienced  by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics.

In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities.

This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012).

This book provides the most recent overview of media systems in Europe.

This book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news.

This edited book covers ongoing research in both theory and practical applications of using deep learning for social media data.

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.